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Love this idea but I don't understand why not all channels are available.

I mean I get it's some sort of licensing thing and the networks aren't allowing it but what I don't get is why? You're still in your home...why does it matter if you are watching their programming on your regular TV while sitting on your couch or if you're watching on the iPad while in the backyard? Aren't you seeing the same programming?

Love this idea but I don't understand why not all channels are available.

I mean I get it's some sort of licensing thing and the networks aren't allowing it but what I don't get is why? You're still in your home...why does it matter if you are watching their programming on your regular TV while sitting on your couch or if you're watching on the iPad while in the backyard? Aren't you seeing the same programming?

Totally agree but we're not the ones to address this to. Write letters to the content providers who impose the restrictions.

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I am sure it is not that difficult to port the app to run on Lion. As we have a team that develops app for the iOS platform and now with Lion's subsets they are more similar in structure. So bottom line is if DirecTV wants to bring it out to the full Mac OS they can in a short time.

Thought I was stuck with all sorts of problems because it wouldn't recognize my receiver - then, cripes, I forgot I got a refurb to replace my prev DVR a week ago and never had checked to see if my wifi dongle was recognized for Web access.

It wasn't.

Ran through the login at the DVR, again, and everything is working sweet as possible.

Go into settings, change the toggle back to Mute, toggle between mute off/on, verify mute is off, go into the app, hear the sweet sounds of live TV... leave the mute off and you should be able to move it back to controlling screen rotation without affecting your sound.

Are you kidding me? DirecTV tosses out a major, FREE bone and you're not happy with it because the opening day channel selection is limited? You should show DirecTV your displeasure by uninstalling the app until more channels are made available.

Well if it doesn't even launch if it detects a jailbroken ipad, I'm not even going to update.

They should of at least let you run the remote control, look at the guide and playlist. Don't know what the big deal is about being jailbroken anyway. It has to be on your network for one, and 2, your logged in with your DirecTV username and password... so that's two factors of authentication proving what content you are allowed to watch.

Sitting this one out until a crack is developed. If I get some time maybe I'll try to modify TWC's crack to work with it.

A free STB that isn't a DVR and that has only some of your channels. Not blaming DirecTV here -- it's all contractual nonsense -- but it's not really a set-top box equivalent.

Still, it's a nice feature and if the programmers get their collective heads out of their collective asses and realize that these kinds of things are necessary to keep people's attention in a multi-screen world, hopefully more channels will be added over time. To the many of you that are complaining, you're all using common sense. Copyright holders sometimes do that ("why should they steal my movie and load it on the internet for people to download 100 copies of?") and often don't. This case is the latter. Time Warner, Cablevision, et al. have been fighting this battle for 2 years or more. The programmers have the temerity to ask for more money to allow the cable / satellite companies to send the same programs to the same customers over a different type of "set top box" -- in this case a tablet. It's quite frankly moronic; they should be begging to be included free. Why? Because attention spans are divided and even having 20% of the viewer's attention on that iPad is better than 0%. We'll see how this goes over time, but hopefully eventually more and more channels will be added.

As for live transcoding of DVR stuff, the iPad has plenty of power to manage that. Slingbox does the equivalent in real time just fine and I promise you the iPad in its current incarnation has far more processing power at its disposal. It's obviously not in the current version, but I suspect it will come down the road. At that point, this kind of solution seems to get really compelling.

(Everyone should see the current version of the app by now, just be aware there is a thing with the App Store that when new app versions are loaded, they take a while to propagate to everyone. That's why some of you upgraded early and didn't immediately get 1.3.1. The propagation typically completes in a couple of hours or less and seems to have done so by now.)

Didn't seem this was right at first but now it is talking to the internet intermittently. It seems to buffer quite a bit a la Netflix.

Peaks at 15-20Mb/s for TNT HD... again about the same as Netflix.

That could be a show stopper for me. I live in a rural area (one reason I use satellite TV) and my internet bandwidth is not good enough for Netflix or VOD. Why does my satellite provider need to consume bandwidth from another service?

Forgive me if I've missed this, but is it actually streaming from the reciever in my home over my own network or is it streaming from the Internet? I have satellite internet service with usage caps and that's the reason it's important to me. Thanks in advance for the help.

Forgive me if I've missed this, but is it actually streaming from the reciever in my home over my own network or is it streaming from the Internet? I have satellite internet service with usage caps and that's the reason it's important to me. Thanks in advance for the help.

Forgive me if I've missed this, but is it actually streaming from the reciever in my home over my own network or is it streaming from the Internet? I have satellite internet service with usage caps and that's the reason it's important to me. Thanks in advance for the help.

It's not streaming from your receivers, it's streaming over the internet. It needs to see an HDDVR on your home network to enable streaming but, again, the video content comes over the internet.

Warning! This will not install on a ios device that has been jailbroken!

A hack is available!

The reason it won't install on a jailbroken device... is the same reason you can't install on jailbroken devices from other content providers. DIRECTV has to show in good faith that it's not allowing its programming to be pirated.

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